21st Century Teaching and Learning: Skills, Tools, and Assessments Lower levelskills- locate information on Internet
Develop PowerPoint
Summarizing content - not analyzing
21st Century Learning The 4 C’s
Connect/communicate
Collaborate
Create
Contribute
What does it look like in the classroom?
Challenging assignments
Alignment with learning goals
Clarity of evaluation
Informative feedback for students
Use technology effectively
We Need to Design Challenging Lessons
Problem solvers
Communicator
Connected to others
Work in a real world context
Self-assess, self direct, take ownership
Create-innovate-compete globally The 4 C’s
Connect/communicate
Collaborate
Create
Contribute
What does it look like in the classroom?
Challenging assignments
Alignment with learning goals
Clarity of evaluation
Informative feedback for students
Use technology effectively
We Need to Design Challenging Lessons
Problem solvers
Communicator
Connected to others
Work in a real world context
Self-assess, self direct, take ownership
Create-innovate-compete globally Each lesson needs:
Level of challenge
Relevance to real world
Technology use by teacher and student - use it during the learning
21st century context (4Cs)
Assessment practices - feedback along the way for improvement Grapplings'Technology and Learning Spectrum **http://www.bjpconsulting.com/files/MAPPSpectrum.pdf** Technology Literacy Uses
Teaching how to use the technology Adapting Uses
Creating products with the technology
Look it up and put it into a project Transforming Uses
Using technology to help them solve problems or learn a topic
*This is where we need to be* Assessment: Quality indicators
Checklists
*Assess the higher level skills.Don't expect them and then score on basics.*
*Align to the tasks and essential learning* The Rubric should fit with the learning and benchmarks that were taking place.
Be realistic
Provide feedback that allows students information on how to improve
Provide criteria before students begin work
Assess the process and the product Cycle of Reflection
What is the level of thinking?How do I raise it?
Is the task and context relevant to students?
What technology can help?
What feedback will improve performance?
Did students think critically? Assessment of student work
Product vs. process - include both
Rubrics should provide feedback on ways to improve
Feedback during learning (checklists, reasoning/thinking guides)
Show Examples
2 areas - understanding and product/performance Web Resources
Teach 21 http://wvde.state.wv.us/teach21/
Lessons and the link to 21st century skills, essential questions, etc
Assessments Thinkfinity Edcitement Curriki Teacher domain Critical Friends Smithsonian Education Web 2.0and Research PowerPoint found on: http://painlessguidetoresearch.pbwiki.com
Book through www.LMCSource.com
Based on AASL standards for 21st century learners
Standards IN ACTION (book)
4 main strands:
Inquire
Create
Share
Grow
4 threads in each strand:
Skills
Disposition in Action
Responsibilities
What behaviors are needed?
Self-Assessment Strategies*
Engage students:
Use Web 2.0 technologies
Collaborative interaction
With teachers and each other
Inquiry-based learning
Need a quality research process
The Savvy Seven Research Process This is just one process but the resources and ideas can transfer to any research model.
Step 1: What is the Question?
Webnote - www.aypwip.org/webnote
Create little notes of different color.
Brainstorm different ideas.
Filter notes by searching for certain words.
Could also use them as online notes as they research.
What do we know…
What do we want to learn…
What questions should we ask…
What is our essential question…
Assessment:
Self assessment - form to fill in
Class discussion
How did it work?
What could we do better next time?
Student performance rubric
Rubric for 21st Century Learner Standards
Step 2: What Resources Should I use?
Gliffywww.gliffy.com
Create a flow chart of what you are going to do (Inspiration)
Primary sources vs. Secondary Sources www.mywebspiration.com Bubbl.us
Assessment:
Self assessment
Score the diagram/web
Step 3: How do I find the information?
iGoogle - www.google.com/ig
Each student creates their own page
Add sticky notes Step 4: How do I gather the Information? Delicious
Keep track of website
Use notes to remember what you thought about the site
Use tags to organize it
Step 5: Which Information do I use?
Wiki's
Zoho Wiki - www.wiki.zoho.com
Share information as a class research project
Create a table and have students fill in information
Different pages with different subtopics
Only one person can edit at a time Step 6: How do I share what I learned?
Voxopop (podcasts) - www.voxopop.com
Create a talkgroup
Students can discuss their findings in that talkgroup
Students can type some messages (brief description of discussion)
Students can record to respond to the discussion.
Step 7: How do I evaluation my work?
Survey Monkey - www.surveymonkey.com
Have students come up with questions - 2 about process and 2 about content
Dipity
Keep a log of the process
Thinking Globally
A world class education system uses globally connected schools.
Presentation found at: www.lucygrey.org There many links to resources in the presentation.I recommend you take a look at it for better information than I have listed below. Education Map of the Decade: Trends, Hotspots and Dilemmas
By the Knowledge Works Foundation
Horizon Report 2009 K-12
By the New Media Consortuim
Identify the emerging technology for K12
1 year or less
Collaborative environments
Online communications tool
The Global Achievement Gap
7 critical skills
We are not giving students the skills necessary for the work world
How to prepare Students Edutopia (Feb/Mar)
Students need to experience other cultures
Teach from a global perspective
Globally Literate Educators
Arlington Heights School District 25
Core Subjects and content
21st century learning
Creating global citizens
Classroom 2.0
Ning allows you to create online content
The Global Education Collaborative
Find other teachers who are like minded and doing projects.
Searchable member list
Forums and blogs
Links to resources
Events
Project database
Videos and photos
Project Examples Basic
Earth Day Groceries Project
Students decorate bags and give them back to the grocery store to use Next Steps
Around the World with 80 schools
Skype with 80 schools over a 6 month period of time Deep Cut
Thar She Blows
Whaling around the world
Google Earth
Draw and scan pictures
Use a website as a collection spot
Primary source documents
Valerie (teacher's name) - on Martha' vineyard
Tools: Mac: Photobooth
iChat AV (videoconferencing, recording)
Apple Learning Interchange - more social networking now
PC: Still or video camera- flip cameras
Woot.com
Web cam
Huckleberry - mirror to record behind the camera
Chat Client - Skype, Oovo, Sightspeed
Digital recording device or web site -Gcast (free podcast)
Collaboartive workspace - Think.com (Thinkquest), blogs, wikis
Project partners - Twitter, iEARN, ePals, Global Ed
Find someone who you have similar teaching style/work habits is key to successful globalpartnership
Sharon Peters Http://wearejustlearning.pbwiki.com
Recommendations: Learn to network; network to learn
Keep it authentic
Start small
Join a group project
Develop a customized vision of 21st century learning for you r classroom, school and district.
Web 2.0
Flash Meeting
Taking it global
Skype in the classroom wiki Digital Opportunitites, Expectations and Realities Digital Realities
Tech + Learning
Students are becoming free agent learners
Does technology lead to educational opportunities?
93% of tech administrators say yes How does it do this:
More engaged learning
Curriculum for special needs students
Increased critical thinking skills
The importance of technology skills
60% of parents rate it important
73% of teachers rate it as important
74% of high school students rate it as #1 skill Use of Wikis, Blogs, Interactive web tools
70% said yes (these are 2007 results) Biggest Challenges (in order)
Funding
Integrating
Upgrading
Proving benefits of student learning
Digital Divide What are the barriers?
#1 barrier was filtering
Student safety
Lack of teacher interest
Parental saftely concerns
Distric policies that prohibit use
Attitudes/Conflict between IT and teachers Internet Access
Low Income or rural students don't have access or limited access
52.6% of homes have broadband access
State Educational technology directors association recommendation
2-3 years = 10 Mbps
5-7 years = 100 Mbps What do students use technology for? (The Big 4) At home:
Computer gaming
Downloading music
Communications
Social networking - personal website
For school:
Writing Assignments
Online research
Chacking assignments or grades
Slideshows
Expectations of students:
Greater technology proficiency/comfort level than teachers or parents
Love of internet, perhaps more than television
Learning will be fun
Demand customization and flexibility
Immediate answers
Unwillingness to memorize things that can be accessed online
Global awareness
Expectations in Higher Education:
Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP)
Knowledge of human cultures and natural worlds
Intellectual and practical skills
Technologies students like to use
Wireless laptops
Recording devices
Note-taking programs
Class websites, blogs, and Wikis
Internet searches
Games and simulation
Technologies they would like teachers to use
PowerPoint
Movies/videos
Relevant computer programs
Employer expectations:
Communication
Collaboration
Innovative
Critical thinking
Professionalism
Work ethic
Are we preparing students for the work world? Opportunities:
Broadband Stimulius package for schools and rural areas, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (AARA), Public Law 111-5
Using Web 2.0
Communications
Share music
Research local or world problems
Participate in online poll about world issues
Use tools to collaborate about local solutions Thrid Party Applications
Ning
Blogger
Google Apps
Teacher Tube
Ustream
Flickr
Google earth
Splashup
Poll everywhere
ePals
JayCut - video editing
Slideshare
Earth Browser
Delicious
Paintmap
Twitter
Zotero - bibliography citations
Pageflakes
Google Reader
The School of Tomorrow:
Open 24 hours a day
Customized educational experience
Students arrive at different times
Formalized schooling at different ages
Curriculum integrated across disciplines
Teachers alternate working in school and business world
Non-teachers work with teachers
Local businesses have offices in the schools
More charter schools
More from the presenter:
Delicious: covelli
Twitter: mcovelli
Blog: http://www.wiscnet.net/wiscnetwire Assessing Information Fluency http://21cif.com This is a fantastic site.Plan on spending some time exploring everything that is there.It helps teach information fluency – Internet searching, Determining credible sources, etc.The links below take you to specific pages in the site, but there is so much more than I have listed.
Resourcesà Event Materials àToday’s Event http://21cif.com/rkitp/course/assessmentworkshop/index.html
Speculative searching
Investigative Searching
What information am I looking for? Should be done before you touch a computer Where will I find the Information? Also before the computer is used.
Speculating – 1 in 5 chance of guessing the word you will need.What word will give me the information I need?
How will I get there? Are students drawn to do one more than the other?- Search engine
Students often browse (clicking links)
Search engine – once you have the search you begin to browse.
Is it good information?Can I find better key words?
Searching Google doesn’t search all the words you type.It eliminates insignificant words.More doesn’t mean better.Google will actually only show you 800 of the listed results.
Keep it short.
Break it up into concepts: who, what, where, when… 2-3 concepts at most in a search Others are alternates
Record the queries: NESTOR
Prints a spreadsheet to analyze
Google forms will track the searches and send it to your google docs
21st Century Teaching and Learning: Skills, Tools, and Assessments
Lower level skills-
locate information on Internet
Develop PowerPoint
Summarizing content - not analyzing
21st Century Learning
The 4 C’s
Connect/communicate
Collaborate
Create
Contribute
www.21stcenturyskills.org
What does it look like in the classroom?
Challenging assignments
Alignment with learning goals
Clarity of evaluation
Informative feedback for students
Use technology effectively
We Need to Design Challenging Lessons
Problem solvers
Communicator
Connected to others
Work in a real world context
Self-assess, self direct, take ownership
Create-innovate-compete globally
The 4 C’s
Connect/communicate
Collaborate
Create
Contribute
www.21stcenturyskills.org
What does it look like in the classroom?
Challenging assignments
Alignment with learning goals
Clarity of evaluation
Informative feedback for students
Use technology effectively
We Need to Design Challenging Lessons
Problem solvers
Communicator
Connected to others
Work in a real world context
Self-assess, self direct, take ownership
Create-innovate-compete globally
Each lesson needs:
Level of challenge
Relevance to real world
Technology use by teacher and student - use it during the learning
21st century context (4Cs)
Assessment practices - feedback along the way for improvement
Grapplings' Technology and Learning Spectrum
**http://www.bjpconsulting.com/files/MAPPSpectrum.pdf**
Technology Literacy Uses
Teaching how to use the technology
Adapting Uses
Creating products with the technology
Look it up and put it into a project
Transforming Uses
Using technology to help them solve problems or learn a topic
*This is where we need to be*
Assessment:
Quality indicators
Checklists
*Assess the higher level skills. Don't expect them and then score on basics.*
*Align to the tasks and essential learning*
The Rubric should fit with the learning and benchmarks that were taking place.
Be realistic
Provide feedback that allows students information on how to improve
Provide criteria before students begin work
Assess the process and the product
Cycle of Reflection
What is the level of thinking? How do I raise it?
Is the task and context relevant to students?
What technology can help?
What feedback will improve performance?
Did students think critically?
Assessment of student work
Product vs. process - include both
Rubrics should provide feedback on ways to improve
Feedback during learning (checklists, reasoning/thinking guides)
Show Examples
2 areas - understanding and product/performance
Web Resources
Teach 21
http://wvde.state.wv.us/teach21/
Lessons and the link to 21st century skills, essential questions, etc
Assessments
Thinkfinity
Edcitement
Curriki
Teacher domain
Critical Friends
Smithsonian Education
Web 2.0 and Research
PowerPoint found on:
http://painlessguidetoresearch.pbwiki.com
Book through www.LMCSource.com
Based on AASL standards for 21st century learners
Standards IN ACTION (book)
4 main strands:
Inquire
Create
Share
Grow
4 threads in each strand:
Skills
Disposition in Action
Responsibilities
What behaviors are needed?
Self-Assessment Strategies*
http://www.ala.org/aasl
Engage students:
Use Web 2.0 technologies
Collaborative interaction
With teachers and each other
Inquiry-based learning
Need a quality research process
The Savvy Seven Research Process
This is just one process but the resources and ideas can transfer to any research model.
Step 1: What is the Question?
Webnote - www.aypwip.org/webnote
Create little notes of different color.
Brainstorm different ideas.
Filter notes by searching for certain words.
Could also use them as online notes as they research.
What do we know…
What do we want to learn…
What questions should we ask…
What is our essential question…
Other resource:
Voicethread
Imaginationcubed
Moodle - Discussion group
Assessment:
Self assessment - form to fill in
Class discussion
How did it work?
What could we do better next time?
Student performance rubric
Rubric for 21st Century Learner Standards
Step 2: What Resources Should I use?
Gliffy www.gliffy.com
Create a flow chart of what you are going to do (Inspiration)
Primary sources vs. Secondary Sources
www.mywebspiration.com
Bubbl.us
Assessment:
Self assessment
Score the diagram/web
Step 3: How do I find the information?
iGoogle - www.google.com/ig
Each student creates their own page
Add sticky notes
Step 4: How do I gather the Information?
Delicious
Keep track of website
Use notes to remember what you thought about the site
Use tags to organize it
Step 5: Which Information do I use?
Wiki's
Zoho Wiki - www.wiki.zoho.com
Share information as a class research project
Create a table and have students fill in information
Different pages with different subtopics
Only one person can edit at a time
Step 6: How do I share what I learned?
Voxopop (podcasts) - www.voxopop.com
Create a talkgroup
Students can discuss their findings in that talkgroup
Students can type some messages (brief description of discussion)
Students can record to respond to the discussion.
Step 7: How do I evaluation my work?
Survey Monkey - www.surveymonkey.com
Have students come up with questions - 2 about process and 2 about content
Dipity
Keep a log of the process
Thinking Globally
A world class education system uses globally connected schools.
Presentation found at:
www.lucygrey.org
There many links to resources in the presentation. I recommend you take a look at it for better information than I have listed below.
Education Map of the Decade: Trends, Hotspots and Dilemmas
By the Knowledge Works Foundation
Horizon Report 2009 K-12
By the New Media Consortuim
Identify the emerging technology for K12
1 year or less
Collaborative environments
Online communications tool
The Global Achievement Gap
7 critical skills
We are not giving students the skills necessary for the work world
How to prepare Students
Edutopia (Feb/Mar)
Students need to experience other cultures
Teach from a global perspective
Globally Literate Educators
Arlington Heights School District 25
Core Subjects and content
21st century learning
Creating global citizens
Classroom 2.0
Ning allows you to create online content
The Global Education Collaborative
Find other teachers who are like minded and doing projects.
Searchable member list
Forums and blogs
Links to resources
Events
Project database
Videos and photos
Project Examples
Basic
Earth Day Groceries Project
Students decorate bags and give them back to the grocery store to use
Next Steps
Around the World with 80 schools
Skype with 80 schools over a 6 month period of time
Deep Cut
Thar She Blows
Whaling around the world
Google Earth
Draw and scan pictures
Use a website as a collection spot
Primary source documents
Valerie (teacher's name) - on Martha' vineyard
Tools:
Mac:
Photobooth
iChat AV (videoconferencing, recording)
Apple Learning Interchange - more social networking now
PC:
Still or video camera - flip cameras
Woot.com
Web cam
Huckleberry - mirror to record behind the camera
Chat Client - Skype, Oovo, Sightspeed
Digital recording device or web site - Gcast (free podcast)
Collaboartive workspace - Think.com (Thinkquest), blogs, wikis
Project partners - Twitter, iEARN, ePals, Global Ed
Find someone who you have similar teaching style/work habits is key to successful global partnership
Sharon Peters
Http://wearejustlearning.pbwiki.com
Recommendations:
Learn to network; network to learn
Keep it authentic
Start small
Join a group project
Develop a customized vision of 21st century learning for you r classroom, school and district.
Web 2.0
Flash Meeting
Taking it global
Skype in the classroom wiki
Digital Opportunitites, Expectations and Realities
Digital Realities
Tech + Learning
Students are becoming free agent learners
Does technology lead to educational opportunities?
93% of tech administrators say yes
How does it do this:
More engaged learning
Curriculum for special needs students
Increased critical thinking skills
The importance of technology skills
60% of parents rate it important
73% of teachers rate it as important
74% of high school students rate it as #1 skill
Use of Wikis, Blogs, Interactive web tools
70% said yes (these are 2007 results)
Biggest Challenges (in order)
Funding
Integrating
Upgrading
Proving benefits of student learning
Digital Divide
What are the barriers?
#1 barrier was filtering
Student safety
Lack of teacher interest
Parental saftely concerns
Distric policies that prohibit use
Attitudes/Conflict between IT and teachers
Internet Access
Low Income or rural students don't have access or limited access
52.6% of homes have broadband access
State Educational technology directors association recommendation
2-3 years = 10 Mbps
5-7 years = 100 Mbps
What do students use technology for? (The Big 4)
At home:
Computer gaming
Downloading music
Communications
Social networking - personal website
For school:
Writing Assignments
Online research
Chacking assignments or grades
Slideshows
Expectations of students:
Greater technology proficiency/comfort level than teachers or parents
Love of internet, perhaps more than television
Learning will be fun
Demand customization and flexibility
Immediate answers
Unwillingness to memorize things that can be accessed online
Global awareness
Expectations in Higher Education:
Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP)
Knowledge of human cultures and natural worlds
Intellectual and practical skills
Technologies students like to use
Wireless laptops
Recording devices
Note-taking programs
Class websites, blogs, and Wikis
Internet searches
Games and simulation
Technologies they would like teachers to use
PowerPoint
Movies/videos
Relevant computer programs
Employer expectations:
Communication
Collaboration
Innovative
Critical thinking
Professionalism
Work ethic
Are we preparing students for the work world?
Opportunities:
Broadband Stimulius package for schools and rural areas, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (AARA), Public Law 111-5
Resources can be found at:
http://willrichardson.wikispaces.com
Service Project Blog -
25 Days to make a difference
Dan Schmidt Podcasts -
http://www.intelligenic.com/blog/
Google Earth in the Classroom
Virtual Field Trips
Swing Network
www.swing.k12.wi.us
Classroom 2.0
www.classroom20.com
Wisconsin connects
Lt. Gov home page
Using Web 2.0
Communications
Share music
Research local or world problems
Participate in online poll about world issues
Use tools to collaborate about local solutions
Thrid Party Applications
Ning
Blogger
Google Apps
Teacher Tube
Ustream
Flickr
Google earth
Splashup
Poll everywhere
ePals
JayCut - video editing
Slideshare
Earth Browser
Delicious
Paintmap
Twitter
Zotero - bibliography citations
Pageflakes
Google Reader
The School of Tomorrow:
Open 24 hours a day
Customized educational experience
Students arrive at different times
Formalized schooling at different ages
Curriculum integrated across disciplines
Teachers alternate working in school and business world
Non-teachers work with teachers
Local businesses have offices in the schools
More charter schools
More from the presenter:
Delicious: covelli
Twitter: mcovelli
Blog: http://www.wiscnet.net/wiscnetwire
Assessing Information Fluency
http://21cif.com
This is a fantastic site. Plan on spending some time exploring everything that is there. It helps teach information fluency – Internet searching, Determining credible sources, etc. The links below take you to specific pages in the site, but there is so much more than I have listed.
Resources à Event Materials àToday’s Event
http://21cif.com/rkitp/course/assessmentworkshop/index.html
Speculative searching
Investigative Searching
What information am I looking for?
Should be done before you touch a computer
Where will I find the Information?
Also before the computer is used.
Speculating – 1 in 5 chance of guessing the word you will need. What word will give me the information I need?
How will I get there?
Are students drawn to do one more than the other? - Search engine
Students often browse (clicking links)
Search engine – once you have the search you begin to browse.
Is it good information? Can I find better key words?
Query quiz for better searching. http://21cif.com/resources/lapackage/samplequiz1.html
Elementary Quiz Games http://21cif.com/rkitp/challenge/Keyword_Challenge/KeywordChallenge.swf
Searching
Google doesn’t search all the words you type. It eliminates insignificant words. More doesn’t mean better. Google will actually only show you 800 of the listed results.
Keep it short.
Break it up into concepts: who, what, where, when…
2-3 concepts at most in a search
Others are alternates
Record the queries: NESTOR
Prints a spreadsheet to analyze
Google forms will track the searches and send it to your google docs
Google docs – using forms give quizzes, etc
Gold Rush
http://21cif.com/rkitp/curriculum/v1n3/goldrushapplications.html
Bunny Cam
http://21cif.com/rkitp/curriculum/Video/SC_SD002.swf
Author Challenge
http://21cif.com/rkitp/challenge/evaluation/author.swf
Do link searches in yahoo. More results than google.